The age of homemade flying guns is upon us, as a Connecticut teenager demonstrated Tuesday, posting a YouTube video of a semi-automatic handgun strapped to a homemade helicopter drone, firing shots in the forest.
The Federal Aviation Administration is currently investigating 18-year-old Austin Haughwout from Clinton, Connecticut, who may have violated FAA regulations, which prohibit reckless operation of a model aircraft.
The teen created the multirotor last week, according to his father, who said it was done with the help of a Central Connecticut State University professor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCchlgezatc
This is not the first time Haughwout has made news with a drone. Last year the teen flew a drone near a woman at a beach, and the woman, Andrea Mears of Westbrook, Connecticut, was later charged for assaulting the teen. The video posted by Haughwout shows Mears physically assaulting him while calling him a pervert.
[Warning: graphic language]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMuDlZw3q68
By James Haleavy